Trinity Baptist Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.).
Name Entries
corporateBody
Trinity Baptist Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.).
Name Components
Name :
Trinity Baptist Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.).
Genders
Exist Dates
Biographical History
Trinity Baptist Church was established in 1875. During the church's first two years, congregants met at Ridgewood Hall on Broadway in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. In 1877, Trinity's chapel opened, located on Greene Avenue between Patchen Avenue and Broadway in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The majority of the founding congregation was comprised of members from the Willoughby Avenue Baptist Church.
The Baptist faith was practiced as early as the 17th and 18th centuries in the territories and colony that are now known as New York City. However, a Baptist house of worship did not come to Brooklyn until 1823, with the founding of the First Baptist Church (later known as the Baptist Temple). In 1847, the first African-American Baptist church in Brooklyn, Concord Baptist Church of Christ, was founded. Baptists were one of the largest denominations in the City of New York during the mid-19th century, continuing to grow with the influx of immigrants into the 20th century.
- Sources
- Younger, George D. "Baptists." In The Encyclopedia of New York City, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson, 75-76. New Haven: Yale University Press; New York: New-York Historical Society, 1995.
eng
Latn
External Related CPF
Other Entity IDs (Same As)
Sources
Loading ...
Resource Relations
Loading ...
Internal CPF Relations
Loading ...
Languages Used
Subjects
Baptists
Nationalities
Activities
Occupations
Legal Statuses
Places
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |x Religious life and customs
AssociatedPlace
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |x Genealogy
AssociatedPlace
Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
AssociatedPlace